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Subject: Re: FW: Re: New American Factfinder
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:28:54 -0500
From: Patricia Kenly <[log in to unmask]>
Everyone -
Perhaps this URL may be stable (using Google) : I can find a page
for 1990 (http://www.census.gov/main/www/cen1990.html ) - clicking on
"100 Percent data - Summary Tape File 1" and "Sample Data - Summary Tape
file 3" - the missing tab for 1990 appears. I can get to the data sets.
Thanks, Hallie, for the heads-up about this.
Regards,
Patricia Kenly
Business Reference Librarian
& Documents Coordinator
Georgia Institute of Technology
Library & Information Center
Atlanta, GA 30332-0900
ph.#: 404-894-1389
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From: "Carlos Diaz" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 3:48:25 PM
Subject: [GOVDOC-L] FW: Re: New American Factfinder
The new American Factfinder is live and you may not like it.
The Census Bureau has removed the 1990 Census tab from the AFF search.
Read the attached email below as to the Bureau's logic. I also couldn't
find Olympia, WA and Seattle, WA on the new AFF search page.
Please be sure to send emails to your Census Bureau regional office and
complain bitterly about it so the Bureau can do something about it.
Carlos A. Diaz
Daniel J. Evans Library
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington
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Subject: RE: New American Factfinder
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:08:11 +0000
From: Hallie Pritchett <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
We had a presentation on the new Census products by a speaker from the
Atlanta Regional Office of the Census Bureau at our annual meeting of
Georgia Depository Libraries last month. According to our speaker,
while the 1990 data is still hosted on the Census servers & still
accessible, you will have to use Google to find it; she wasn't sure why
the Census Bureau chose to take it off of American FactFinder. Needless
to say, this caused a great deal of consternation amongst the government
documents librarians present & will undoubtedly cause commotion amongst
the wider documents community as the word spreads. Hopefully the Census
Bureau will rethink their decision soon.
Hallie Pritchett
Map and Federal Regional Depository Librarian
University of Georgia Libraries
Athens, GA 30602
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706-542-0690 (Map Library)
706-542-0664 (Main Library)
706-583-0631 (FAX)
Map Library - http://www.libs.uga.edu/maproom/
Government Documents - http://www.libs.uga.edu/govdocs/
-----Original Message-----
From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 2:49 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: New American Factfinder
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE:New American Factfinder
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:47:15 -0800
From: Diaz, Carlos <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
Yes, but what happened to the 1990 Census data?
Carlos A. Diaz
Daniel J. Evans Library
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: New American Factfinder
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:35:35 -0600 (CST)
From: Linda R Zellmer <[log in to unmask]>
To: Map & Air Photo Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Hello,
I notice that the new American Factfinder went live today. I am finding
it far from user friendly. It might be really useful for summary
statistics (how many in my county), I am not finding it very useful for
GIS data. I will be logging into the web conference this afternoon.
Linda Zellmer
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Linda Zellmer
Government Information & Data Services Librarian
415 Malpass Library
Macomb, IL 61455
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Phone: 309-298-2723
Fax: 309-298-2791
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